Communism FTW!!!

[CptStern]

"The Economist has a story about Tuangou in China. Tuangou, roughly translated into group purchasing, is basically a smart mob who arrange the meet up over the internet and show up at a retailer at a specific time and use their number to negotiate a discount with the retailer. In the story, a Tuangou group of 500 show up in Gomei (largest home electronic retailer in China) at 4pm on June 16th and negotiate a 10 ~ 30% discount for the group. Gomei not only closed the door to the normal customers but also prepared goody bags for these Tuangou shoppers. Now, that's Power to the People!"

that's pretty awesome

WE WANT CHEAP STUFF!!!

http://slashdot.org/articles/06/07/04/158205.shtml

 

[lePobz]

Cool, maybe this is the chav ethic. They group in city centres in their masses and each get a five-fingered discount!

 

[CptStern]

although I'm willing to bet the chavs wouldnt be as polite as the pinko commies

 

[Majestic XII]

Ive been involved with stuff like this, but online. We were about 200 people who bough minimotos directly from the factory in China. I got a minimoto for about 250 bucks. They also done the same thing with TVs and stuff. Works great.

 

[_Z_Ryuken]

We do this at the SVX forum all the time. It's called a group buy.

We negotiate to have specific parts made for our cars, and in return for lowering their normal prices we guarantee them to have a certain number of sales.

Everybody wins.

 

[Hazar]

hahahah, that's awesome D:

 

[Ennui]

I think there was a thread about this already. Or maybe I just came across it on my own. Pretty spiffy, either way.

 

[spookymooky]

Picture awesomeness

 

[Jintor]

Lolz. We should do that.

Unfortunantly we all live in different countries, ay.

 

[Voodoo_Chile]

^^

So who's up for mass emailing Valve to get a group HL2.net discount for those who will definatly buy through Steam?

(Just a suggestion...)

 

[hungryduck]

^^

So who's up for mass emailing Valve to get a group HL2.net discount for those who will definatly buy through Steam?

(Just a suggestion...)

we'd probably just get owned by the spam filters....

 

[JNightshade]

That's pretty sweet, but all the Tuangou's in the world couldn't make Communism "for the win" :|

 

[15357]

I almost blew my agrression inhibitors when I saw the title. :|



But lol. Group discounts....

 

[Beerdude26]

That's pretty sweet, but all the Tuangou's in the world couldn't make Communism "for the win" :|

Indeed. In smaller groups (like these), however, they would.

 

[Voodoo_Chile]

we'd probably just get owned by the spam filters....

Aye but it is nice to dream.

 

[Danimal]

I would feel sorry for VALVe if that happened. :\

 

[Majestic XII]

I would feel sorry for VALVe if that happened. :\

Don't feel sorry about the capitalists!

 

[Jangle]

/me imagines Numbers hurling his computer across the room after reading the thread title...